Chapter II: Part 2

Look in upon a single mission station. A group of three buildings attracts our attention as a bit of New England transplanted, a church, a good-sized school-house, and between the two a neat white painted cottage. The missionaries number four, of whom three are ladies from the North. Over 200 children and youth come daily to the school, where these missionary teachers instruct in branches usual in primary to grammar grades, and also in Christian morals and manners, with the Bible for a text-book, seeking earnestly to develop heart, mind and body to honor and righteousness. The little New England home gives practical illustration of what otherwise would be but dimly comprehended by those who have never known a home. It is open, day and evening, to all who will come. The morning devotions, the pleasant social meals, the group around the table in the evening, which the older pupils often join, are phases of home life sharply in contrast to the shiftless, joyless homes about them. With the influence of this home as a starting-point, these teachers, in visiting from house to house, suggest, advise, encourage, finding always the children the most ambitious to improve and make the little cabin like the teacher’s home. You would think this sufficient to occupy these three ladies, and so doubtless they would were it not for the dire need about them. So time is found for a sewing-school, for meetings with the women, for temperance societies, for mission Sunday-schools, and numerous other forms of systematic work—for the purifying of the home life, and to guard the children from the fate of the parents. Who but women could win an entrance into such homes and hearts? It is to counteract the ignorance and desolation of womanhood that woman’s help is needed in this broad field.

But is it more the duty of these to go and teach, than for us who remain in the enjoyment of our great home privileges, to send them? Can any lines be drawn in the personal responsibility resting upon us as Christian women, for the redemption of womanhood in these so long cast out and bound down?

Help is needed, and it is needed now, before the millions of children grow out of our influence and reach, to become like their parents, and even a more dangerous element in society.

How shall the help be given? Every church is an organization which bands together Christian workers. The nearer all can come to the very heart of the great societies appointed to the work of missions, the stronger and warmer are the missionary pulsations. Here is the American Missionary Association, with its forty years’ experience in church and school planting, combined with woman’s work. It has every facility for examining the field and selecting central points with view to the largest results, and it invites and urges your co-operation through its Bureau of Woman’s Work, which is prepared to furnish information and to put you into direct communication with the missionaries. With your own heart full of this need, try so to lay the case before others that they, too, may feel it, and constitute yourselves a church mission band, to raise money to aid the American Missionary Association in carrying on its work in the South, and for the Chinese and Indians.

Thus can the ladies of every church take part with us in overcoming ignorance, superstition and caste prejudice in behalf of womanhood in this our land.

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WORK AMONG THE FREEDMEN.

BY MISS BERTHA ROBERTSON.

_Dear Friends:_—It gives me much pleasure to bring you a report, which will not be a discouraging one, of a part of the work this grand old American Missionary Association has undertaken. It would be simply impossible to give you a true idea of the work done among the colored people. Already you have heard many accounts, but to fully realize what is being done, you must either see the people over whom the influence of our schools extends, and compare them with those who have not enjoyed such privileges, or enter the field as a worker. In giving an outline of our work at McIntosh, Ga., perhaps a general idea may be gained of what the A. M. A. is doing for the freedmen. The colored people where we are, and I think it is the same throughout the South, have an idea their teachers can do anything from housekeeping to preaching a sermon or mending clocks, but before we should be allowed to undertake similar work in the North, it would be necessary that we should have M.D., D.D., or some other initials after our names.

We teach school. This does not mean exactly what it does in the North. You must remember, when the children come to us, they have had no home training whatever.

You can imagine something of their condition, when you remember that the majority come from miserable log cabins, consisting of one room, where parents and children live huddled together, and where the furniture is a mere apology, consisting generally of a table, bench and two chairs.

They have no hopes and ambition such as white children have. They never think of the possibilities the future may hold for them. When we ask our boys and girls what they are going to do when they leave school, they look at us in blank amazement. This is a new idea to them; they had not looked beyond the present.

Their standard of morality is low. Did you expect anything else? Who were the parents of these children? Slaves. Slaves who in return for hard labor received from the white man the cruelest wrongs and basest indignities; and yet people to-day speak as though this first generation born in freedom should be pure and virtuous. On every side you hear, “They lie, they cheat, they steal, are lazy, and it is simply impossible to do anything with them.” Many times this summer I have heard this sweeping assertion made, and by Christian people, who had simply traveled South, and who drew their conclusions from the servants they met in the hotels. Had they visited some of the A. M. A. schools their statement would not have been quite so extended as to the impossibilities of improvement.

The Bible is the foundation of all our teaching. Religious and moral training first. A half hour each morning is given to devotions. Friday morning the school all meet together for prayer, in which our pupils take part. We have been greatly blessed in these meetings. Friday afternoon the girls all meet in one room, and while they are taught sewing, the Principal of the school gives the boys a talk on morality, in another room. We visit the pupils in their homes, and they, with their parents, feel at liberty to come to our cottage at any time. It is with much pleasure we note the improvement in their cabins and the taste the girls display in trying to make their homes resemble our cottage. After school every Friday afternoon, we have a missionary meeting for the mothers. Here, while they sew, simple religious stories are read to them, and before they go home we have a Bible reading and prayers. Three years ago this society sent ten dollars to the Morning Star, and for the past two years they have sent fifteen dollars to the A. M. A. for the Indians. They are trying to do a little for the Master’s Kingdom.

Besides these meetings, we have Sunday-school and mission-school, and on Saturdays we go to settlements six or eight miles distant to hold mothers’ meetings. Many a poor soul in these meetings has heard for the first time the blessed news of personal salvation.

I know, dear friends, that what I have already said is not new to you; you have heard it many times and are anxious to know if any progress is noticeable. I wish, oh, how I wish, I could tell you of the progress they are making. How they are working under cast-iron laws to pay for their land and get little frame houses. People tell me, in a general way, that they are lazy and there is no hope for them; but I know them to get up at “day clear” and work until sundown to pay for their land under conditions that would discourage nine white men out of every ten. I could name a dozen families around us who have their land paid for, and nice little homes. The children come to school, their tuition is paid regularly and their books are provided as soon as needed.

Are they progressing? For an answer I would like to show you the nice little two-story frame building in which two of our pupils who were married last winter live. On the lower floor is the parlor, dining-room and kitchen; above are the chambers. The pretty chamber set, white spread and pillow-shams, were purchased with the money Sarah earned off her cotton patch.

People say they are dull and stupid. Yet children ten years old will criticise letters received by their parents, and in two and a half years we can fit a boy for the second preparatory year in college. He works his own way, pays for his books, and at the end of a year has enough to pay his traveling expenses home, and when his teacher asks him if there is anything he needs, he replies, “Oh, no; can’t I do something for you?”

People say, “You can’t trust them.” Yet I know of one of my little girls on sewing afternoon, when almost home, returning with a needle that somehow got stuck in her dress; and I have never missed a pencil or book out of my desk, on which there is no lock, during the years I have spent in McIntosh. How often you are told they are ungrateful, and do not appreciate what you are doing for them. Once and forever this idea would be banished from your minds could you be present at our meetings, and hear the fervent, heartfelt prayers of both young and old that God will pour out his richest blessings on this Association and the friends who uphold it. It has also been said they do not care to be educated, they would just as soon remain as they are. We have many pupils in our room who walk sixteen miles every day, and who do a task before leaving home in the morning, and another when they return at night. One of my boys, Josiah Roberts, walked this distance every day last year with the exception of two, making a total of 2,250 miles during the school year, and was not tardy one morning. Can any other school show such a record?

Among the colored people great stress is laid upon “joining the church.” This is one of the evils against which we have to fight. It is the only idea many of them have of what it is to be a Christian. One day, when returning home from making a call on Aunt Judy, the minister’s wife called me, saying the girls wished to see me. She has a number of girls from “up country,” who board with her and attend our school. I followed her into the room where they were, and said, on entering, “Well, girls, what is troubling you?” There was silence for a moment; then one bright girl looked up saying, “Oh, Miss Robertson, won’t you tell us what to do? We thought we were Christians, we belong to the church, but we are beginning to find out that that isn’t enough. We are not living for Christ. Won’t you tell us how to be such Christians as our teachers are?” With a short prayer for help, I pointed them to the Divine Example, and during the remaining days of school we had proof that they were imitating Him. Those girls went out into various parts of the country this summer to teach, carrying Jesus with them. Who can estimate the good they will do?

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the cabins the people hold neighborhood meetings. Desiring very much to see how these were conducted, I started out one evening with one of my girls. After walking about a mile through the woods we reached the cabin, which was crowded with dusky faces. As I entered, room was made for me at one side of the fire-place, in which was a crackling fire of pine knots. They asked me to read to them, so I opened my Bible to the CIII. Psalm. How eagerly and attentively they listened as it was read and explained. Then each one took part, either singing or praying. Then together they began to sing their old slave songs, keeping time by clapping and shaking hands, bobbing their heads and scraping their feet. Every part of the body seemed in motion. As I watched the strange scene, I thought, “Will this form of worship die out with the old slaves, or will it be continued by our young people?” I turned at that moment to look at my companion. A woman had just stepped up to her saying, “Why don’t you shake hands?” “Because I see no sense in it,” was the reply. On our way home she inquired of me if I did not think the last part of that meeting was more like a frolic than praising God? How rejoiced I was to hear that young girl express herself in such a manner. Truly, “Our labor is not in vain in the Lord.”

Dear friends, I would not give you the impression that there are no discouragements in our work, for there are many. It is with heavy hearts we oftentimes watch some of our scholars returning to their homes in the evening, for we know that there everything tends to overthrow the religious teaching received during the day. Girls going home to mothers who have no sense of purity and virtue, and who cannot realize the degradation of their lives. Sometimes those the most promising, those for whom we have entertained bright hopes for the future, fail us, and we are almost constrained to cry out, “This is greater than I can bear.”

But He, whose promises never fail, has shown us that the seed sown in tears will surely bring a harvest, and the encouragements, together with the joy of being in His service, outweigh the discouragements.

I could tell you of young men who have come to our school addicted to drink, using profane language and tobacco, who to-day are earnest, faithful Christians, the hope of our school. We gladly would keep them, yet we bid them “God speed,” as this year they go to Atlanta University. I could tell you of young girls who, out of the wickedness and immorality around them, have grown up pure, consecrated Christian women, doing what they can for the Master they have promised to serve.

Such is the work the A. M. A. is doing throughout the South. Is there anyone who can afford not to have a part in this glorious work? Think of the privilege of being permitted to help lift these souls, born in ignorance and vice, into the marvellous light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Last year, for want of room and help, we had to turn many away from our doors, and that means sending them back into the wickedness and ignorance from which they desired to rise. When I take up the AMERICAN MISSIONARY MAGAZINE and read therein the appeals for help, the feeling that comes over me is not unmixed with indignation, for in God’s precious word I read, “If I were hungry I would not tell thee, for the earth is mine and the fulness thereof;” and again, “The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts;” and yet the stewards to whom He has entrusted this vast fortune do not allow Him enough to carry on His work. I heard the remark, not long ago, “When money is needed you can’t compensate with prayer.” Faith and works must go hand in hand. Shall not the treasury this year be full to overflowing so that “the barnacles may be cleared off this old ship,” and there be nothing to impede her progress?

Won’t you multiply your prayers for the work and workers, so that this year may be the most prosperous, so that we may indeed “have souls for our hire”!

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WORK AMONG THE INDIANS.

BY MISS H. B. ILSLEY.

Six years of life among the Dakotas has taught me many things. Very plainly I recall the first glimpse of their homes, as, October 1st, 1880, I wended my way, the sole occupant of the stage, between Yankton and Yankton Agency, Dakota—a distance of 65 miles, to the home of Rev. Mr. Williamson.

Home warnings were still ringing in my ears—for, had I not been told, “You are doing a foolish thing, seeking only adventure, spending your strength for naught; _Indians can’t be educated_; you will live in one common room with only a sheet partition, and you will have only a penny candle for your evening luminary, and the Indians _may scalp_ you.” I saw the tents, I saw the one-room log houses, and I met blanket Indians face to face in paint, bells and feathers. Home warnings came vividly before me as possible realities. But in a moment the hearty welcome of Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and their children too, changed my thoughts. The cheerful sitting room itself had a welcome, and home letters were there to greet me, which uttered no more warnings, neither have I thought of them since, except as fund for amusement. This was my introduction to life on a reservation.

From among varied experiences, I would like first to take you on a recent trip with me, to some of the homes of the Dakotas scattered along the Missouri and its tributaries, in our Oahe field. There are now a number of stations, varying from five to fifteen miles apart, where native teachers are at work; they having been prepared for this at our schools in the past. There are day-schools of between twenty and thirty pupils each. The teachers have religious services on the Sabbath, and also visit among the people, becoming acquainted with each man, woman and child.

At one of these stations, Cherry Creek, the Indians have been associated with Sitting Bull, and it is of their homes I wish to speak as types of the field when taking the first steps toward civilization. Log houses of one room, with the earth only for a floor; bedsteads of planks loosely laid on wooden posts about a foot high from the ground. These serve also for chairs in the daytime. A cook stove is found in the center of each room and this is all. On the log wall hangs the coffee pot, the iron kettle and their extra coats and dresses (if they have any). They still keep their tents and use them in summer, which adds greatly to their comfort.

At most places the women were working industriously; some embroidering with porcupine quills, some preparing corn for drying by braiding the husks into a rope, leaving the various colored ears hanging; others were pounding between stones their native fruits, which they dry and preserve for winter use.

A few men were building their log houses and plastering the crevices with earth; some were at work in their fields, and many sat with their friends smoking and telling entertaining stories.

The religious influences at these homes are foreign to ours, of course, but there is an influence. The Dakotas worship all nature. They pray to the spirits of heaven and earth; to the winds, the sun, the moon, the stones, and for fear something should be left out—it is summed up in the great mystery—the Great Spirit. All trouble and even sickness comes from evil spirits, hence the young never want to care for the sick, and do not dare for fear they shall be visited with disease too. Near the tipi of one of the women we noticed a large new tent; and we asked, “Whose is this?” “My tipi wakan,” (holy house) she replied. “May we enter?” “Oh, no, we do not allow white people there.” “But,” says my companion, Miss Collins, “they always allow me.” “Do they? well, come.” She led the way inside and told us the following incident:

Her son, a boy of thirteen, had died; and during his sickness all the relatives had promised to make a certain number of gifts, to be finished at a set time after his death. The tent was very large, and half way around on the inside were several rows of Indian travelling cases, which held the gifts. The mother opened one of these and showed us her offerings: moccasins, leggins, tobacco pouches, pipes and many articles for which I knew no name. All of them were beautifully embroidered, and she had handled them so carefully that the deerskin of which they were made was spotlessly clean. This poor sorrowing mother had worked so diligently that her wrist was very lame, but she was being doctored by one of their medicine men, and hoped soon to finish all she had promised. “My son has counted every one of these gifts,” she said, “and when the time comes we will call a feast, and our sacred men will say prayers, and we shall give these gifts away. This will please my son and he will pray for us.” _So_ she hoped to merit blessings for herself and others. Do we not hope that the dear Lord may soon grant this faithful woman a revelation of Himself?

Before leaving this view of Indian life, let me give you a glimpse of our other station, Fort Berthold, through a recent letter from Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss Webb, of Santee. She writes: “You have no idea, and I cannot begin to realize, the depths of heathenism and degradation which surround us. It is only a little walk to the village, and strange sounds come from there all through the nights. There is dancing and all sorts of wickedness going on. I wish our Agent would use his power to put a stop to such things. I have had my first women’s meeting. My plan is this: to have a circle composed of the mothers of our boys and girls, or, if they have no mothers, the woman nearest to them. My first meeting consisted of five. One of them could speak Dakota so I was able to reach her a little. She was an interesting, bright woman, but oh! so dirty! I was wonderfully drawn to her and also to one of her little girls. Here was an opportunity to use my Dakota Bible, which I was so glad to improve. Now I am surrounded by Rees and Gros Ventres, I feel the barrier of language exceedingly. The Rees are around us mostly. The Gros Ventres have taken their farms twenty, thirty, or forty miles away. Here will be such a field for some of our boys. Who will be the devoted, consecrated worker? I feel all we can do now is to pray; and I am sure God will hear and answer.”

Having tried to picture to you our people in their own homes, in parts of the Oahe and Fort Berthold fields, turn with me now to our Santee school, and the record of its boys and girls. Some of these not long since came from similar homes; others are the children of Christian parents and grandparents, and do not know of the native beliefs and customs, except as they are told. We have representatives from ten different tribes, five tribes (and the larger part) belonging to the Sioux or Dakota Nation, the remaining five belonging to the Rees, Mandans, Gros Ventres, Arapahoes and Poncas. The whole number of different pupils last year was 210. This shows a steady increase. They have continued in larger numbers through the year, and those from a distance have enjoyed attending the summer sessions of school. There has been marked progress in their studies and deportment; especially in deportment, for those who used to be so painfully shy, and their voices so faint one must strain the ear to listen, can now, with their acquired knowledge of spoken English, look you confidently in the face and respond with distinct voices. The brightening of the eye and whole countenance makes you sure of the bond of friendship established between teacher and pupil, which gives always a promise of success. In the homes, in the shops (of which there are three—blacksmith, carpenter and shoe shop), on the farm and at school, many through the year have given very satisfactory service. While I would not claim for any, perfection of conduct, yet in simple justice to their efforts I do say, they have tried faithfully to do well what they have attempted, and have succeeded, and so have won the esteem of their teachers in the several departments.

The studies are as yet mostly elementary. The Bible in Dakota and in English has always had a prominent place, in order that the young men and women may be fitted for religious work among their people. We would never lose sight of the fact that the first and highest aim is to form a Christian character that shall go with its influence into their homes and be felt. It is no plan of Santee to isolate the child from the parent, but rather through the child to influence the parent and all home life. Where there is such strong family affection, there is a proportionately strong hope that the greater and larger good can be accomplished in this way. Through the past year there has been an awakening to the claims of their own people upon our pupils as never before. They express desires such as these: “I want to help my people.” “I go alone on the hill and cry to God to bless and save my people.” “Pray for my people that they may all be Christians.” Surely God’s spirit is with them.

During our summer vacation we receive letters from those at home, which give a little insight into their life when they return to old surroundings. One young girl writes, “There are some new Indians here. They have their old ways yet, and I am afraid of them and very careful with them. No Sunday-school, no church and no prayer to-day is just dreadful to me. Remember us in your prayers that we may be able to resist temptation.” Quoting from a letter from one of the young men, “The people here asked me to go to grass dance, but I said ‘I don’t know how to dance now.’ They have dance every Sunday. And the white man, he always took some picture on Sunday. You think he doing right? I think they don’t know how to walk to the church. I know what makes those white men not want to go to church. They didn’t like to hear the truth and doing in the right way that Jesus wants all people to do.” Do not such words as these show that the good seed is taking deep root?

Our organized Christian work embraces three missionary societies and a Y. M. C. A.

The Society of Native Women holds weekly meetings for prayer and sewing. Their homes are far apart and but few can attend at once; yet some one is always ready to welcome the Society and prepare herself to lead the prayer-meeting. They have raised during the year $74.25. The girls of the Dakota Home organized a separate society, October, 1885, with an average attendance of thirty. They raised from September to July about $12. This was done by small weekly offerings, and by the sale of useful and fancy articles at the close of school. The little girls of the Birds’ Nest have also had their society of seventeen members, varying in age from six to twelve years. By little services they have earned $1.20, and a gift of $2 from a gentleman has enabled them to report $3.20 at the Annual Dakota Meeting in September. The Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. handed me his report, from which I quote as follows:

“Our year’s work was quite profitable. We had at first nineteen members. Our work was to bring young men to our meetings, and we appointed four for that special work, though it is the work of us all. We appointed four others to go in different homes and have prayer with those who are not church members; four to visit the sick and find out needs, to help them. Our contribution was rather small, though it is the best we can do; this year $43.16. Out of that, $25.80 goes to help our native missionary account; the remainder is for helping delegates to different meetings. There were twenty-five new members this year, most all associate members, leaving only fourteen active members, but God has blessed us in many ways.”

In conclusion, I think I speak the minds of all the teachers at Oahe, at Fort Berthold and at Santee, when I say we feel much encouraged in this our work for the Dakotas and other Indians. God does bless our efforts, and the hearts of the young are being won to his service. We know it is your work, too. We ask you still to strengthen our hands and hearts in the future. We need your interest and your prayers. We need your hearts with us constantly, that we may be able to do better and greater things. It is a _privilege_ to try to teach those committed to our care, of the love of God and Jesus, which has existed so long for them, even as it has for us. It is a privilege, in place of their fear and worship of all nature, to tell them of the tender love and care of a Heavenly Father. It is a privilege to see the faces brighten and show the peace of God, because their hungry, fainting, souls have found the Master. There may be self-denial in a life among them; but in working for the elevation of a people like this, not simply to be our servants and forever the weaker race, but with an aim to bring them to stand on a level, to be Christian men and women, able to fight the battle of life with a pure faith in the one God and Saviour of us all, is something _worthy of self-denial_.

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RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1886.

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MAINE, $162.00.

Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15.00
Augusta. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 2.00
Bangor. Mrs. Walter Brown 10.00
Casco. “A Lady,” by Mrs. Richard Mayberry 1.00
Hermon. L. J. Peabody, _for Marie Adlof Sch’p
Fund_ 1.00
Machias. “A Friend.” 5.00
Portland. State St. Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00
Wells. Mission Circle of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $423.73.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Atkinson. Joseph Grover 8.00
Atkinson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 5.10
Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.50
East Derry. First Ch. and Soc. 1.71
Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00
Greenville. Isaiah Wheeler, 100; Cong. Ch.,
8.72 108.72
Harrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50
Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch. 17.70
Lebanon. C. M. Baxter, _for Woman’s Work_ 65.00
Mason. Ladies, _for Freight_ 2.61
Milford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS
CHRISTIANA MOORE, MISS ALICE M. FARNSWORTH
and MRS. LIZZIE R. HOWARD, L. M’s 127.83
Nelson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.50
Peterboro. Mrs. M. A. and Miss M. D. Whitney 4.00
Rindge. Cong. Ch. 3.51
Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.55
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$399.73
LEGACIES.
Concord. Estate of George B. Woodward 14.00
New Ipswich. Estate of Wm. D. Locke, by A.
N. Townsend, Agt. 10.00
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$423.73

VERMONT, $244.07.

Barton. “A Friend,” to const. GUY ROBERT
VARNUM, L. M. 30.00
Bethel. Y. P. S. C. E. Missionary Gardens,
_for Indian M._ 2.70
Brattleboro. Central Cong. Ch. 103.40
Brattleboro. Mrs. F. C. Rice, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 2.88
Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.75
Coventry. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.62
East Hardwick. Ladies’ Aid Soc., Bbl. of C.,
_for Tougaloo U_; 1.35 _for Freight_ 1.35
Essex Junction. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for
McIntosh, Ga._ 7.25
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.12
Saint Albans. H. E. Seymour 5.00
Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 38.25
Springfield. Ladies’ Soc., Bbl. of C., etc.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Waitsfield. Ladies, by Mrs. S. A. Bigelow,
_for McIntosh, Ga._ 4.75
Woodstock. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks 14.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,762.81.

Ashburnham. C. G. Noyes 10.00
Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayers, 5; “A Friend,”
Carpet, val., 50, _for Room 21 Cong.
House_,—Dorchester. “Friend,” _for Indian
M._, 46.07.—Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.
93.50.—Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Sab. Sch.,
_for Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_, 75 219.57
Boxboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Boxboro. Grace Dustan, _for Marie Adlof Sch’p
Fund_ 0.40
Brockton. “Friend,” _for Santee Indian M._ 65.68
Brockton. Mrs. Mary E. Perkins 5.00
Cambridge. Miss Mary E. Marrett’s Sab. Sch.
Class, First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 10.00
Cambridge. Mrs. J. Russell Bradford 5.00
Campello. South Cong. Ch. 100.00
Charlton. “A Friend” 3.00
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. adl. 10.00
Chicopee Falls. “A Friend,” by Rev. R. P.
Hibbard, _for Tougaloo Miss._ 10.00
Concord. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. 33.09
Cummington. Mrs. H. M. Porter, 2 Pkgs
Patchwork, _for Macon, Ga._
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. (36 of which _for
Charleston, S.C._) 115.71
Danvers. First Cong. Ch., to const. ELBRIDGE
A. GUILFORD, MOSES CHAPMAN and MRS. NANCY
MORRISON, L. M’s. 93.77
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 166.00
Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 56.69
Enfield. Edward Smith. 500.00
Erving. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.75
Fitchburg. Dea. Holton, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 15.00
Freetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.70
Gardner. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., by Mrs. F. H.
Whittemore, _for Indian M._ 50.00
Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. 111.32
Greenwich. Daniel Parker, deceased, by Mrs.
M. P. Estez. 5.00
Hanover. Second Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Hatfield. Cong Ch. and Soc., to const. DAVID
BILLINGS, JR., and MRS. ISABELLA L. DWIGHT
L. M’s. 66.16
Haverhill. Mrs. E. G. Wood, _for Freight_. 2.00
Haverhill. Nettie L Webster, _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 0.30
Holliston. “Friends,” 14.63; Class of Young
Men Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; “Friends,” 2;
“Friends,” Straw Matting and Oil Cloth,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 22.63
Hyannis Port. Dr. J. H. Wright, _for Student
Aid, Straight U._ 5.00
Hyde Park. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., by Mrs. M.
G. Bunton, _for Woman’s Work_. 25.00
Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 64.09
Merrimac. John K. Sargent. 2.00
Methuen. First Cong. Ch. 27.45
Millis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.03
Milton. “A Friend’s Mite Box”. 2.20
Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Newburyport. Prospect St. Cong. Ch. 90.60
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.26
Newton. Eliot Ch., _for Santee Indian M._ 75.00
Newton. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc. Box of
C., etc., _for Macon, Ga._, 1 _for Freight_. 1.00
Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch.,
_special gift for Oahe Indian M._ 15.00
North Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Gould, _for
Rutland Sewing Sch._ 3.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., _for
Pleasant Hill_. 14.50
North Weymouth. Old South Ch., 11.25;
Pilgrim Ch., 8.77, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 20.02
Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 57.00
Oxford. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., by Miss L. D.
Stockwell, Treas. 7.70
Pepperell. Dea. G. Blake, 10; Miss S. J.
Miller, 2, _for Student Aid, Dudley, N.C._ 12.00
Reading. Woman’s M. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo U._; Eliza A. White, 1.25 _for
Freight_. 1.25
Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 142.29
Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc. 45.00
Somerville. Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee
Indian M._ 45.35
South Attleboro. Mrs. H. L. Draper, Bbl. of
C., _for Grand View, Tenn._
Springfield. South Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.00
Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for
Indian M._ 30.00
Taunton. Broadway Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 25.00
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.01
Westboro. “A Friend”. 2.00
West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.26
Williamstown. South Ch. 13.79
Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 23.62
Winchester. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill_. 50.00
Woburn. Daniel Richardson. 1,000.00
Woburn. Ladies’ Charitable Reading Soc.,
_for Freight_. 1.35
Worcester. Piedmont Ch., 276.47; Piedmont
Sab. Sch., 25, _for Indian M._ 301.49
Worcester. Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Atlanta
Students in Sch. of Theology, Hartford, Ct._ 50.00
Worcester. Plymouth Ch. (10 of which _for
Indian M._) 80.00
Worcester. Salem St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 9.00
Worcester. Old South Ch. M. C. Coll. 7.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev.
Ass’n.
Chester. Center 2.00
Chicopee. Second 56.90
Monson 40.88
Springfield. South, _for Debt_ 5.00
West Springfield. First 27.00
West Springfield. Park St., Mrs. H. A.
Southworth 20.00 151.78
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$4,262.81

LEGACY.
Cummington. Estate of Mrs. Clara K. Porter,
by Milton Porter, Adm’r 500.00
————————
$4,762.81

CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
Pittsfield, N.H. By Miss Susie G. French,
Bbl. and Box, _for Marion, Ala._
Medfield, Mass. Box, _for Wilmington, N.C._
Newbury. Mass. First Parish, Bbl., _for
McIntosh, Ga._
Watertown, Mass. Mrs. E. P. Wilson, Bbl.,
_for Louisville, Ky._

RHODE ISLAND, $375.86.

Barrington Centre. Cong. Ch., 81.15, and
Sab. Sch., 25. 106.15
Bristol. First Cong Sab. Sch. 20.00
Little Compton. Mrs. Antrace Pierce. 5.00
Providence. Union Meeting, Beneficent Cong.
Ch., _for Indian M._ 159.50
Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. 50.00
Tiverton Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Westerly. Cong. Ch. 28.21

CONNECTICUT, $1,614.73.

Birmingham. J. Tomlinson. 15.00
Bridgeport. Olivet Ch., 7.75; F. S.
Buckingham, 2. 9.75
Bristol. L. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl.
Household Goods, _for Thomasville, Ga._
Chester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 8.75
Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.80
Collinsville. Mrs. E. J. Warren, _for
Charleston, S.C._ 1.00
Darien. Ladies, by Miss Ellen M. Nash, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 10.00
East Haddam. “A Friend”. 8.00
Easton. Cong. Ch. 7.00
East Woodstock. Ladies and Cong. Ch., _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 20.25
Enfield. Henry Abbe, 5; F. A. King, 5; _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 10.00
Fair Haven. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Farmington. “Friends,” _for Teacher, Santee
Indian M._ 150.00
Greenwich. Cong. Sab. Sch, _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 17.50
Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. 3.25
Hampton. “A Friend”. 5.00
Hartford. First Ch., Mrs. E. C. Root, _for
Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 100.00
Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. 92.62
Hockanum. “Hockanum Friends,” _for Indian M._ 2.25
Meriden. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Meriden. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 35.00
Middletown. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 50.00
Milford. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 150.00
Millington. Mrs. Geo. L. Edwards 5.00
New Britain. South Cong. Ch., Special to
const. a L. M. 50.00
New Britain. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of South
Ch., 10 _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._, and
10 _for Mountain White Work_ 20.00
New Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00
New Hartford. Young Ladies’ Mission Band, by
Mrs. F. H. Adams, _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 8.00
New Haven. Davenport Cong. Ch. 71.00
New Haven. College St. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for a
Kreutzer Marie Adlof Sch’p._ 50.00
New Haven. Miss Fanny C. Skinner, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
New Haven. L. M. Soc. of Davenport Ch., Bbl.
Household Goods, _for Thomasville, Ga._
New London. Mrs. Anna H. Perkins, _for
Indian M._ 25.00
New London. Set Miss’y Maps, by J. N.
Harris, _for Talladega C._
New Preston. Mrs. S. A. Whittlesey 1.00
North Lyme. Grassy Hill Sab. Sch., 6.89,
_for Rosebud Indian M._ and 1.20, _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 8.09
Oxford. Rev. J. B. Cleaveland 5.00
North Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.50
Plainfield. Cong. Ch. 21.55
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 40.20
Rockville. Judge Dwight Loomis, 10; G. L.
Grant, 5; H. B. Murless, 5; H. D. Reede,
5, _for Indian M._ 25.00
Southport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 1.70
Suffield. Young Ladies’ Circle, _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 5.00
Talcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 190.45
Terryville. “Soldier of Christ,” _for Dakota
Indian M._ 10.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.02
Thompson. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Vernon Center. Cong. Ch. 11.80
Vernon Center. Ladies’ M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
Bbl. of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._ and 3
_for Freight_ 3.00
Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, Second Ch., _for
Children’s Missionary_ 20.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 70.00
West Hartland. Cong. Ch. 6.00
West Haven. H. E. Nettleton, _for Indian M._ 2.00
Wilton. Mrs. S. L. Adams 5.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. 10.25
By Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec. W. H. M. U. of
Conn., _for Woman’s Work._
Hartford. First Ch. Parsonage Circle 20.00
Naugatuck. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 35.00 55.00
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——. “A Friend,” _for Indian M._ 5.00

NEW YORK, $1,551.90.

Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 59.05
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., _for Dakota
Indian M._ 200.00
Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for New
Building, Tougaloo Miss._ 130.09
Brooklyn. Julius Davenport, _for a Kreutzer
Marie Adlof Sch’p._ 50.00
Brooklyn. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee
Indian M._ 37.50
Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 50; “Mrs. M.,”
10; Mrs. Sarah A. M. Kent, 2 Bundles of C. 60.00
Buffalo. E. Sterling Ely, 100 Books, _for
Tougaloo U._
Churchville. Missionary Circle by Miss Anna
Craig, _for Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 11.48
Darien. “A Friend” 500.00
Durham. “A Friend” 2.50
Evans. “Children,” _for Marie Adlof Sch’p
Fund_ 0.50
Flatbush. “A Friend” 2.00
Gloversville. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 8.00
Greigsville. Mrs. F. A. Gray 1.00
Le Roy. Delia A. Phillips 10.00
Lisle. R. C. Osborne 1.50
Massena. “A Friend,” _for Talladega C._ 2.00
Mexico. George G. French 10.00
New York. Broadway Tabernacle, _for Indian M._ 241.97
New York. Genl. Clinton B. Fisk, to const.
MRS. W. D. MCFARLAND L. M. 30.00
New York. Isaac E. Smith, _for Jones
Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 25.00
New York. Mrs. J. H. Washburn, 10, _for
Mountain White Work_; J. H. Washburn, Pkg.
of C. 10.00
Ogdensburg. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Oswego Falls. —— 16.50
Rochester. Gen’l A. W. Riley, 50; Plymouth
Cong. Ch., 30.91 80.91
Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. MISS
IDA R. MILES L. M. 30.00
Saratoga. Carpet, by Mrs. S. A. Ricard, _for
Talladega C._
Warsaw. Cong. Ch. 14.90
Woodville. Miss W. D. Jones, _for Freight_ 2.00
——. “A Friend, Central N.Y.” 10.00

NEW JERSEY, $39.81.

Arlington. “Friend,” 5; Miss Mary P. Talman, 1 6.00
East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. 33.31
Newark. Primary Class First Cong. Ch. Sab.
Sch., _for Indian M._ 0.50

PENNSYLVANIA, $4,413.09.

Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
_for furnishing a room, Straight U._ 41.70
Pittsburg. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 17.27
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$58.97

LEGACY.
Washington. Estate of Major Samuel McFarland,
by A. M. Evans, Ex. 4,354.12
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$4,413.09

OHIO, $280.09.

Ashtabula. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 10.55
Claridon. First Cong. Ch. (8 of which from
Sab. Sch.) 35.60
Cleveland. Jennings Ave. Cong. Ch. 75.00
Cleveland Ladies’ Home M. Soc. of Euclid
Ave. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. Val., 61.33,
_for Oahe Indian M._
Columbus. Ladies’ Soc., Pkg. Patchwork, _for
Tougaloo U._
Coneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20: H. E. Brown,
5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Hicksville. “A Friend” 10.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Hudson. L. B. Soc., _for Woman’s Work_ 4.00
Madison. Mrs. E. A. Crocker 2.00
Marysville. Cong. Ch. 13.53
Newark. Plym. Cong. Ch. 5.00
North Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Cornings, 10,
B. S. Noyes, deceased, 3 13.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Charleston, S.C._ 20.00
Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 10.00
Oberlin. Y. W. C. A., _for Student Aid,
Williamsburg, Ky._ 1.00
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. 1.70
Rochester. Cong. Ch. 2.50
Sandusky. Home Miss. Soc., by Miss M. O. Dennis,
Sec., _for ed. of an Indian girl, Oahe M._ 15.00
Springfield. Infant Class Cong. Sab. Sch.,
2; Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Warren, 2, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 4.00
West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 4.94
Williamsfield Center. Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 3.27

INDIANA, $2.00.

Sparta. John Hawkswell, 1.50; Mrs. Nancy A.
Adkins, 50c. 2.00

ILLINOIS, $452.85.

Alton. Chas. Phinney 25.00
Altona. Cong. Sab. Sch. Box, S. S. Papers,
etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Amboy. Ladies, Box of Bibles, etc., _for
Mobile, Ala._
Aurora. First Cong. Ch., 25.50, New Eng.
Cong. Ch., 22 47.50
Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 37.11, E.
Rathbun, 20; Western Ave. Chapel, 4.64 61.75
Chicago. Woman’s M. Soc. of Lincoln Park Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 13.50
Galesburg. “A Friend of the Needy” 2.00
Geneseo. Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., 32 _for Charleston, S.
C._and 30.50 _for Austin, Texas_. 62.50
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 15.07
Lisbon. Cong. Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._ 9.70
Marshall. “Your little friend,” Geo. Kimball
Greenough .0.21
Northampton. R. W. Gilliam 5.00
Oak Park. Cong. Ch., 79.62; Cong. Sab. Sch.,
44 123.62
Oneida. Cong. Ch. 27.05
Peoria. W. A. Brubaker, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 12.50
Poplar Grove. Cong. Ch. 7.35
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 14.10
Roseville. Mrs. L. C. Axtill and “Friends,”
Box of C., etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Sterling. Wm. and Catharine McKinney 10.00

MICHIGAN, $4,553.97.

Alamo. Julius Hackley 10.00
Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ 20.00
Coloma. Cong. Ch. 2.40
Detroit. J. D. McLaulin, _for Student Aid
Tougaloo U._ 25.00
Detroit. Fort Wayne Cong. Ch. 12.28
Edwardsburg. S. C. Olmstead 5.00
Jackson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 10.00
Milford. William A. Arms, to const. TOWNSEND
O. BENNETT L. M. 30.00
Traverse City. First Cong. Ch. 26.31
Traverse City. Bay View Sab. Sch., _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund._ 8.50
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$149.49

LEGACY.
Chelsea. Estate of John C. Winans 4,404.48
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$4,553.97

WISCONSIN, $347.47.

Beloit. Rev. H. P. Higley and Friend, Box
Reading Matter, etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Clinton. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Green Bay. Irving C. Smith and Friend, Box
Reading Matter, _for Macon, Ga._
Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.91
Madison. Cong. Ch. 40.00
Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch. 44.76
Ripon. Proceeds Union Fair, held by Cong. Ch.
and Ripon College, by Marian Sargent, Treas. 12.00
Sturgeon Bay. “Friends,” Box Reading Matter,
etc., _for Macon, Ga.; 2 for Freight._ 2.00
——. “A Friend,” by Mrs. Jeremiah Porter, (50
of which _for Woman’s Work_) 150.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union, _for Woman’s
Work_.
Appleton, W. H. M. U. 12.00
Boscobel, “ 2.00
Clinton, “ 9.00
Janesville, “ 5.00
Manston, “ 13.00
Menasha, “ 5.00
Monroe, Mrs. M. Blakely 1.00
New Lisbon, W. H. M. U. 2.30
Wauwatosa, “ 10.00 59.30
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$335.97

LEGACY.
Fort Howard. Estate of Rev. D. C. Curtiss, by
Edward C. Curtiss, Ex. 11.50
——————
$347.47

IOWA, $187.16.

Anamosa. Woman’s Freedman’s Soc., _for Anamosa
Room, Straight U._ 8.00
Denmark. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Grinnell. W. H. M. U. of Cong. Ch., _for
Woman’s Work_ 13.69
Grinnell. Mrs. J. B. Grinnell, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Hastings. “Young Workers” 1.00
Iowa City. “Busy Ring” 10.00
Lake City. E. P. Longhead 3.00
Lyons. First Cong. Ch. 14.65
Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. 7.18
McGregor. W. H. M. U. of Cong. Ch., _for
Woman’s Work_ 16.50
Montour. Cong. Ch., to const. J. N. CRAIG, L. M. 37.80
Muscatine. German Cong. Ch. 4.00
Osage. W. H. M. U. of Cong. Ch., _for Woman’s
Work_ 3.20
Otho. Cong. Ch. 6.14
Red Oak. Mrs. Mariana Willis, Box Reading
Matter, etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Sioux City. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Waterloo. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
_for Tougaloo U._ and 2 _for Freight_ 2.00

MINNESOTA, $42.33.

Hastings. D. B. Truax 5.00
Minneapolis. Union Cong. Ch., 11.54; Plymouth
Ch., 9.13 20.67
——————
$25.67

LEGACY.
Minneapolis. Legacy, in part, of Mrs. L. H.
Porter, by Samuel F. Porter, Ex. 16.66
——————
$42.33

KANSAS, $75.50.

Cawker City. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Chapman. W. H. M. Soc., by Mrs. Grace M.
Perry, Treas., _for Repairs, Storrs Sch.,
Atlanta, Ga._ 50.00
Manhattan. Cong. Ch., Eli C. Freeman, _for
Printing Press, Straight U._ 2; Mrs. Henry
Strong, 50c. 2.50
Topeka. Miss Randlatt 3.00

NEBRASKA, $5.00.

Santee Agency. Rev. J. H. Steer 5.00

CALIFORNIA, $100.00.

San Diego. Mrs. Harriet Marston 100.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $5.00.

Washington. Lincoln Mission Sab. Sch., _for
Charleston, S.C._ 5.00

MARYLAND, $202.86.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 202.86

KENTUCKY, $87.92.

Clover Bottom. Ch. 4.42
Williamsburg. Tuition 83.50

TENNESSEE, $812.37.

Jonesboro. Tuition 54.50
Memphis. Tuition 341.65
Nashville. Tuition 413.72
Pleasant Hill. Tuition 2.50

NORTH CAROLINA, $203.70.

Wilmington. Tuition 195.45
Wilmington. Miss Warner, 2; Miss Peck, 75c.;
Miss Farrington, 50c.; Mrs. M. A. Noble,
_for Student Aid, Talladega U_, 5 8.25

GEORGIA, $737.00.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition 278.95
Macon. Tuition, 204.70; Rent, 14.30 219.00
Savannah. Tuition 204.65
Thomasville. Tuition 34.40

FLORIDA, $62.62.

Saint Augustine. Tuition, 12.62; Rent, 40;
Miss H. D. Barton, 10 62.62

ALABAMA, $284.44.

Mobile. Tuition 159.00
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Shelby Iron Works. Rev. J. S. Upton 10.00
Talladega. Tuition 110.44

LOUISIANA, $185.50.

New Orleans. Tuition 185.50

MISSISSIPPI, $150.85.

Tougaloo. Tuition, 150.00; Cash 85c. 150.85

TEXAS, $80.00.

Austin. Tuition 80.00

INCOMES, $1,788.47.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 637.50
Endowment Fund, _for Presidents’ Chair,
Talladega C._ 37.50
Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 125.00
Hastings Scholarship Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 377.50
Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 250.00
Luke Mem. Sch’p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 10.00
Mrs. Nancy M. and Miss Abbie Stone, Sch’p
Fund, _for Talladega C._ 25.00
Rev. John and Lydia Hawes Wood, Sch’p Fund,
_for Talladega C._ 0.97
Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 45.00
Tuthill King Fund, 125 _for Atlanta U._, and
125 _for Berea C._ 250.00
Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 5.00

* * * * *

RECEIVED FOR THE DEBT.

MAINE, $18.00.

Bangor. Dr. H. F. Hanson $8.00
Bridgton. Two Lady Friends, 2 each 4.00
South Paris. Ladies of Cong Ch. and Soc. 1.00
Thomaston. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $125.90.

Auburndale. “A Friend” 15.00
Campello. “A Lady Friend” 5.00
Fitchburg. Ladies of Rollstone Ch. 5.00
Hanover. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Kingston. “A Friend” 2.00
Lanesville. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lowell. Collected by Little Girls in Eliot Ch. 6.20
Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Malden. “A Lady Friend” 0.50
Middleton. Mrs. O. L. Carleton, 5; Ladies,
ad’l, 20c. 5.20
New Bedford. “A Lady Friend” 2.00
Newburyport. “Two Lady Friends, North Ch.,”
2 each; “A Sab. Sch. Boy in North Ch.,”
10c. 4.10
Randolph. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 20.00
Reading. Ladies of Cong. Ch., ad’l. 0.80
South Framingham. “The Children” 1.00
Swampscott. MISS LUCY A. HOPKINS, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
West Newton. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch.,
ad’l, coll. by H. F. C. 2.10
Worcester. Plymouth Ch. 15.00

CONNECTICUT, $11.00.

New Haven. Rev. S. W. Barnum and family 5.00
Putnam. Members of Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs.
H. G. Shaw, ad’l. 2.50
Winchester. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 3.50

NEW YORK, $10.00.

Brooklyn. Puritan Ch. 10.00

ILLINOIS, $38.95.

Elgin. Miss A. Champion 5.00
Waverly. Cong. Ch. 33.95

IOWA, $3.00.

Forest City. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 3.00

MISSISSIPPI, $0.30.

Columbus. Salem Ch. 0.30

CALIFORNIA, $1.00.

Lugonia. Edson D. Hale 1.00

CANADA, $1.00.

Sweetsburg. Mrs. H. W. Spaulding 1.00
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Total for Debt $209.15
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Donations $10,779.14
Legacies 9,310.76
Incomes 1,788.47
Tuition and Rents 2,565.88
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Total for November $24,444.25
Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 36,378.53
==========

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions for November 36.47
Previously acknowledged 35.70
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Total $72.17
========

H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade Street, N.Y.

SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER.

Donations $9,790.61
Legacies 1,312.50
Incomes 175.00
Tuition and Rents 656.17
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Total for October $11,934.28

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